SixersBeat Episode at 10:00 PM (Eastern)

Brian keeps implying the Sixers are "unlucky." While I contend its mistakes due to inexperience or stupidity that lead to the hard luck losses. Obviously its a combo of both- but beyond increased experience, why should we expect the trend of blowing close games to change anytime soon.

Sorry, just saw these comments here. Didn't answer on the show, but I'll answer here.

I have no idea why we should expect these horrible, horrible losses to turn into wins eventually. You'd hope that young players learn from the costly mistakes they make in crucial situations and don't repeat those mistakes down the road. That's the maturation process. Will it happen? I hope so.

You'd also hope that by trial and error, Collins will find something he can go to when a hoop is desperately needed in the half court. Again, learning from what went wrong to figure out how to avoid it.

So right now what are the young players learning aside from 'don't give the ball to lou'

Lou is 'physically young' I guess but he's been in the league long enough - he is what he is - the young guys aren't going to learn how to win in 'crunch' time if Coach (tom) collins keeps letting lou be in charge

At times, he's way above average, but he's got holes he needs to address. I'm still bullish on his defense for the long haul because (a) he's got the physical tools to be a great defender at the position and (b) he takes it seriously.

Tonight's game is a pretty good example. He was horrid in the first half, in the second half, he really pressured Augustin and he wasn't committing ticky-tack fouls to do it.

Are you nervous about Thorn at all tho? I mean the guy is like 70 right? Maybe he's sort of in semi-retirement, you know, I'll only come out if there's a deal to be made. Thats kinda what happens when people get to that age. You think he even bothers studying advanced stats or anything like that? I'm sure he knows about em but does he really care? Or is he the type of guy who just thinks like Melo is a top ten player in the league for example? I don't know, would be interesting to find out. Maybe he'll come on SixersBeat at some point.

That'd be cool. I know I've given up on that garbage stiff, but Collins still wants to play him because he wanted to trade for him, and now he feels like he has to give him every chance. At the expense of our sanity.